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- There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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